Cris Valenzuela says compute availability and deployment efficiency bottleneck the AI industry
Cris Valenzuela · Cris Valenzuela: AI Creators vs Hollywood Writers; How We Grew Runway into a $1.5B Company | E1054 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Aug 28, 2023 · at 29:42
Cris Valenzuela is the CEO and co-founder of generative AI startup Runway. He discusses the primary rate-limiting factors affecting product velocity in AI.
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“There's a limitation of compute that we, the industry has at the moment, and so sometimes you're constrained because of compute, and sometimes you're constrained about use cases or deploying those models and making them efficient.”
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